Mizar
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Yep, elsewhere - gun-shows, friends guns, etc.If you don't own one, your "observations" are confined to what you have read online or experienced elsewhere.
Well, maybe because I believe that I have the needed skills to do it, have access to the needed machinery and have worked on enough guns to built my confidence.If you do not own a Pietta repro Colt 1851 Navy (which is what this thread is all about), why are you so sure you can fix all its supposed ills? YouTube videos? Other?
This is not a farmers market, but just an example that CNC machinery alone is not a guarantee for a trouble free assembly and an "in spec" product, simple as that.Now you are talking apples and oranges insofar as the difference between open top Colt repros and solid top NMA repros (aka 1858 Remingtons). I have no experience with a repro Remington "1858" NMA so I cannot comment more...
OK, that's your opinion. But let me disagree with it based on my experience - almost all of the guns I have handled needed some tuning to make them work as they should (and last). Nothing extreme, but just a simple tweaking here and there.As an owner of three Pietta factory assembled models, they are far beyond "kit" quality, sir.
I don't get it, really - I have only suggested to the OP that some additional work might be required, so he can be prepared what to expect and you jump on me like I said that Piettas are nothing more that a complete POS. I actually like Pietta guns, but for what they are - cheap replicas. I had the pleasure of handling different original percussion guns, including a pristine third model Colt Dragoon and a Colt 1860 and I can tell you that Pietta must walk many miles to reach that level of manufacture, even with the shiny bluing and polyurethane varnish they are so proud of.